{"id":144311,"date":"2023-07-14T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=144311"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:35:05","slug":"american-artillery-ammunition-running-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=144311","title":{"rendered":"American artillery ammunition running low"},"content":{"rendered":"

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America’s ammunition inventory is running low due to the ammunition provided to Ukraine. Darin Gaub, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, said that it would take decades to recover the ammunition levels that were in place prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One of the events that Gaub used to make this conclusion is the decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. Per his sources, it could take from 10 to 15 years for the United States military to return to previous ammunition inventory levels.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The president’s move was met with criticism by both Democratic allies and foreign allies, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles.<\/p>\n

Gaub described the nature of these weapons, explaining, “Cluster bombs are basically a whole bunch of tiny bombs inside of a larger shell that, when launched over a specific area, or targeted to a specific area, that outer shell will explode outward, and all those little bomblets will spread all over a large piece of terrain and explode on contact.”<\/p>\n

There are currently more than 100 countries that have joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions to ban the use of these weapons, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany. However, both the U.S. and Ukraine are not signees.<\/p>\n

“With these kinds of bombs, there’s always what’s called a dud rate, something that just doesn’t explode. Typically, in America, our rule is that we’re not going to export anything without having that number be down to about a 1% dud rate, which currently with what we’re shipping over, is a little over double that number because Biden waived it. And that’s really the concern, that we’re going to be helping spread these kinds of munitions all over Eastern Europe, which for years to come could cause injury and death,” Gaub said. “It’s a multiyear-long problem to clean that kind of thing up, which is why many people have issues with us sending them into Ukraine.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News provides additional details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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